The Sun. — London, England, 1864-08-19 00:00:00

R. ALFRED MELLON'S CONCF dITS EVERY EVENING, at light. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA HOUSE, COVENT-GARDEN. THIS EVENING. 3ldlle. Carlotta Patti, Kebs Mr. Levy, Mr. Hughes , Mr. Patey, and 'Ali Ben Sour-a:le. Part Songs and Glees sung by Miss Fosoroke, Mrs. Dixon, Mr. A. mathisen, end Mr. C. Henry. BAND OF ONE HUNDRED PERFOR3IERS. Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON. Promenade, Amphitheatre Stalls, and Amphithea t re, One Shithng ; Diess Circle, 2s. ed. ; Private Boxes, XL Is. and 103. ed. To-morrow, Saturday, the Second Volunteer Night. , - - - ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING, BORN TO GOOD LUCK. Paddy O'Rafferty, Mr. Dominick Murray. After which, THE bTREET3 OF LONDON. Messrs. Vining, J. W. Ray, D. Fi her. D. Murray, J. Nelson, H. Forre-ter. H. Meilon ; Airs. Henry Manton, Miss Emma Barnett, and Miss F nny Gwynne. N,w Tii i'RE-1110 YA L, ADEL 64ie Proorwtor and Manac, , ar. M. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, MY W.UE'S Messrs. J. L. Toole, F. Bedford, R. Phillips, ::ad Mr . Alfred Mellon. After w:Ach, MASKS AND FACES. Messrs. B. Webster, r. Bedford, R. Phillips, Billinzton, Stuart; Mrs. btirlino, Mrs. Billington. and Miss 11. :Simms. o conclude with THE ACTOR'S RETREAT. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. liediord, B. Phila, 3, and Miss Woolg,Ar. Commence at 7. NEW BOWER °PERE t' TA HOUSE.- Senora Georg,l Cardit., al, the eminent Spanish Come di,mne, in Smyth Lee's new and eminently successfial Come dik.tta, HEY ONLY FAILING • w hich, together with CYMuN AND IPHIGENIA. ICED CLIAMPAGNE, a n d THA KISS AND THE ROSE, will, be repeated EVERY E VEINING. COUNTRY an 3 SEASIDE DRESSES. lvJ Messrs. JAI, of Rep-,ent-stree , t, , have now in s t oc k a variety of WASHING DaL - S, sultatle for the country and seaside, and at t he c.earing_out pike of only £1 lis. Cd. the dress. JAY'S, 247, 249, and 251, Regent-street BLACK SILKS ,—The price of Silks in the raw material has already r sen 15 per cent., and it will soon reach a far areater per-ceatage. Messrs.therefore, invite their numerous patrons to take adv.,nta,g,e of the stock they have on hand, which they can now dispo , e of on favour qualities will naturilly more able terms • but the same ct Silk fluctuates to a higher average coAly as the price JAY'S, 217,219, and 251, Regent-street. C-I)°ALS.—Tile LILLI coM Direct from thel SHALL COMPANY'S .LS. own Collieries. ..... .235. per ton. I Double.. 20s. per ton. Top ............ 22 5 . • „ Deep ....215. „ Well B , :treened and delivered within five miles of their De pots, Westbourne Park-road, W., and 17, South Wharf, Paddington, W., and Maiden-lane, N. seat Coke Terms cash. JOHN SCOTT, Sole went. MEM THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGEN q3E, be had Every Evening of G. R. GLENIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Ilyde-park. THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN' vippPed, as soon as published every Evening by IIBNRA: BROOKS, Newspaper Agent, 21, Old Cavendish street, 11% WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tail D/12.7.—Morniag, 3h. 3m.—After_qhm, 3h. 267 n. ro-uoaaow.-Moraing, 34. 48m.—Afternoon, 10m. ,t, • LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1864. Out of two childish and senseless absurdities two populous towns—see in France, the other in Ireland—are now suffering very lamentably. A rocket fired into the air during the imperial demon strations on Monday evening (the Fete NAPOLEON) no Limoges, has resulted there in a fearfully destrue. tire conflagration. A big doll paraded through the • streets of Belfaetbythe local Orangemen—afterwards bur at as a sort of GUY FAUX representative of the Liberator—the ashes of it being eventually, with an in, fecent mockery, no less of Reath than of the Great ,Dead, whose memory was thus unprovokedly held up as a mark of public abhorrence and derision in the very land where that memory of DANIEL O'CONNELL is, not undeservedly, revered and be loved ! This senseless playing with a big doll in the etreets of Belfast, we say, has led—thanks to the storage stupidity of the originators of that counter demonstration to the Great O'CONNELL Demon stration in Da the delivering up of the Town of Belfast, now for nearly one whole fort re'glaf, into the hands of lawless rioters. Viewing Vat: latter occurrence as dispassionately as possible front this side of St. George's Channel, it seems to 113 tt, be only a matter of simple justice that we should recall to mind a fact already beginning to be n a great measure lost sight of ! Namely, the fact as to the side upon which these riotirags in Belfast began. It requires only to le mentioned thus quite plainly to insure its revival, upon the instant here in Eaglet:ea, in the popular recollection. The rioting then it is but right and fair that we should recall this to mind—the rioting began, yonder in Belfast, dis tinctly, solely, and exclusively on the side of the Orangemen. In the midst of their foolishvagarieswith that absurd lay flvare of O'CONNELL the Belfast disturbances commenced with the flourishing of bludgeons, the flinging of stones and brickbats, the smashing of windows, the attacking and the sacking of a Nunnery. The occasion for all this, or rather, the plea for it all, being—a counter demonstration ! A Counter Demonstration at Belfast to the gigantic `and perfectly peaceable Demonstration known to be then (simultaneously) taking place in Dublin— where at the very centre of the grandest street of all in the Irish Capital, the foundation stone of a Na tional Memorial to O'CONNELL was being laid, not precipitately or irritatingly, bat calmly and deliberately, after the great Tribune's remains had been reposing for nearly eighteen years in his grave at Glasneven. Eighteen years It was time that a monument to O'CONNELL—their Liberator—should be raised by the Irish people in the very centre of their metropoli9, as a memorial, not of his name, for that in its mere historical greatness is certainly ./Ere perennius, but as a memorial 01 their love, gratitude, and admiration. After waiting so long, before thus obtruding their re gard for O'CONNELL'S memory upon the attention of those who had no respect for it, on the contrary, the very reverse—the Roman Catholic people of Ireland could hardly be reprehended in this matter of an O'CONNELL monument, and by necessity also (in laying the foundation stone of it) an O'Coer- NELL Demonstration—the Roman Catholic people of Ireland, it is bat fair to say thie, could hardly in this matter be reprehended for anything like officiousness, or precipitation. It was but reason able, indeed, that the men who had been liberated by O'CONNELL—as not only the Irish Catholics, but all the other Roman Catholics throughout the length and breadth of the British Empire had been liberated by O'CONNELL—it was but reasonable that those whom O'CONNELL had liberated, should, at length, very tardily, after thie precise fashion, namely, by raising a great public Monument, a National Memorial in 11 : 3 hca3ll, ) evil:nee their appreciation of him as their Liberator. How their proceedings went, in so doing —at last, after so many years had elapsed elece the death of O 'CONNELL—WO. know. The de monstretion which ma rked the laying the foundation etone of this O'Cosertee el ainoti in Dublin was, grand among all preced in two way, exceptionally dzmorntrattena of any kind that had ever taken place there in the Ir ish capital. It was thus d ou bl y exceptional among all the demon s t rations that had ever taken place there in Dublin, because it was the vastest that had ever been witnessed there, and because, while it was the vastest demonstration, it was a demonstration unmarked from beginning to end by one Single accident to life or limb, to person or property, nay, b 7 any the smallest disturbance whatsoever. it WAS whil e thi s grand, and peaceful, and perfectly reasonable denno:istratica wth;s taking pace in Dablin, that the ill advised Orangemen of The progress of cotton cultivation in different pets of the world still continues to excite consider• able interest, and indeed it can hardly fail to do so while the necessities of the population are so much effected by it. All classes have more or less suffered from the extravagant price and inferior quality of cotton fabrics, and, like a friend, who makes his value felt by his absence, cotton has taught us how useful and übiquitous it is by our constant need of it now that it is difficult to get, and of doubtful finality when obtained. The poorer classes more especially have had cause to lament the American War, not only as regarding Lancashire, but as put ting the common commodities of household economy almost beyond the reach of heads of families. There is little doubt, however, that what has caused such wide distress will in the end be productive of large and lasting good. Ihaides the stimulus given to Indian trade, which has borne it through the first difficulties, many countries with idle or ill-employed land have turned their attention to this profitable cultivation. In several parts of Africa there are promising indications of a thriving trade, which, if it should realise the expectations formed of it, may prove of the greatest service to that country, and may even serve eventually as a check upon the slave trade by raising the value of negro labcur at home. The Executive Committee of the Cotton Supply Association, which has done such good service in encouraging experiments i❑ cultivation, lately re ceived a letter from Durban, Nate!, enclosing two fine samples of Sealaland cotton, valued respectively at four and five shillings the pound, This kind of cotton, which is one of the finest sorts, succeeds wel', and is said to be better adapted to the climate than any other. The weather in that part has been unfavourable, being very stormy, but the planters were not discouraged. Cotton in Barbary is de scribed as thriving, and the Moors have taken up the notion with great energy. They are sowing cotton in quantities, and seed had been in great zequest. The West Indies are fortunately well adapted to the growth of cotton, as might be sup• posed from their geographical position. Sheule they be able to open a good trade in this quarter it will go far towards restoring their long lest prosperity. From Jamaica samples have been received, valued as high as 33d. and 34d. per pound. From the go. vernor of Antigua a fine sample, grown from New Orleans seed, has been received, with a despatch stating that it had been . grown under unfavourable circumstances, as from the period of planting to that of picking—three months—no rain whatever had fallen. The Governor is very anxious that the cotton cultivation should have a fair trial in this island, as there are many estates now lying waste which might he turned to profitable account. From Berbice and St. Thomas there are favourable ac counts, while is Ceylon an individual has made an experiment with so much success that he has made application for seed sufficient to plant 50 acres. Io the Navigator Islands the attempt to sow cotton is also being made with a fair prospect of success. But the cultivation is not everywhere prosperous, and the Association chronicles with equal fidelity the efforts which fail and which answer. In Madeira it has proved a decided failure; a plot of ten acres being in one instance planted three times without any result. One speculator had been more fortunate in his first attempts, but subsequently his crop en tirely failed, so that experienced men are of opinion that it will not do to try cotton in Madeira. This affords a curious contrast to some other localities not, one would think, so very dissimilar. It is evident that cotton does not requit h e,the same elements of strength and health as human Leiugs, seeming to flourish best in the least salubrious places. In the - West Indies, as we have seen, it is thriving, while, on " fair Madeira's vine crowned hills of health," as MONT GOMERY styles them, it absolutely refuses to grow. In South America it bids fair to Lemma of some importance. From Peru accounts have been re ceived which are very encouraging, and the Peruvian plants stand the sun so well that they are well adapted for introduction into Southern India, where, if properly watered, they are more remunea rative than the indigenous variety. The produce is of fine quality ranking next to Sea Island. They have been extensively grown in the districts of Kistua and South Arcot, where the yield has been at the rate of 560 lbs of clean cotton per cawny, which is equal to an acre and a quarter. The plant shoot out fresh blossoms before cue crop is fully gathered, At Nellore it has Leen found that the yield of cotton (from New Orleans seed) is at .he rate of 150 lbs per acre, but where irrigation is employed, once in eight days, it is 250 lbs. [n several parts of Africa, as we have said, the cultivation is thriving ; and, indeed, in many places it already grown in some quantities by the natives. The Governor of the Gambia gives some valuable information acquired by Staff AssistantsSargeon HARVEY, on his route to the Upper River, when he saw large inclosures with fair crops of cotton. At Medina, the capital of the people told him that they could bring plenty of cotton to market if wanted. Dr. HARVEY suceeedrd in negotiating a treaty with the King of \Voolli, who is very anxious for the friendship and trade of English merchants, so that traders may now with perfect safety establish depots throughout the King's dominions. Farther north, on the sane continent, things are more advanced, for we learn from Alexandria that money is in great demand, owing to the large sums sent into the interior for advances on the new season's cotton crop, which some persons value at £25,000,000. Should these anticipations be even partially realised, Egyptian cotton will have a beneficial effect upon the English m ar k et, and help to brighten still further the improving prospects of Lancashire. AN ENGLISH LADY'S CARICATURE OF PARISIAN FRENCIIMEN.—I was very fond of walking in the B do Boulogne, Parisian Madame is very great there. Dressed within an inch of her life, she haughtily surveys from her carriage the humble pedestrian, I like the ap pf arance of Madame.—l saw many faces which pleased me mightily piquant faces, with blight eyes, clear skins, full lips, and pert little noses of no particular architecture. I cannot speak so favourably of Parisian Monsieur ; he is an ill-looking animal ; he is fat, stumpy, and badly put to gether ; he has short, sunk features, and a sallow dirty skin. The hat he wears does not improve him. His hair cut close, after the fashion of the enforced coiffure of her Majesty's gaols, is not becoming. He shaves off his whis kers and a livid blue mark meanders over his fat cheeks, The nape of his neck is thick and red, and his closely shaven head reveals it in all its hideousness. Ido not like Parisian Mossoo ; he is rude and ill-bred, La politesse .Francaisc n exists plus—it must have been one of the ear liest victims of the Revolution.—London Society. 'THE NEW CATHOLIC CHAPEL AT LEAMINGTON. .—lbe ceremony of conseeretiog the new Roman Catholic chapel at Leami❑gton was commenced on Wed nesday morning, by the bishop, Dr. Ullathrone, assisted by the Rev, G, Jeffries, vicar-general, and about eight or nine clergy. The walls of the chapel were first sprinkled, out side and inside, with holy water, and afterwards the altar was consecrated. There was a Maltese cross in the nave, upon the two shafts of which the bishop wrote the letters of the Greek and Latin alphabet, signifying the union of Greek, barbarian, and different nations in the one fold of Christ, The celebration of Mass brought the ceremony to a close about eleven o'clock. The chapel, which stands upon a large and eligible plot of land, in Dormer-place, opposite to the Royal Pump Room Gardens is said to be one of the finest of any of the Catholic chapels within the circuit of the midland district. It has been erected by Mr. W. G. Gascoyne, builder, of Leamington, from the design, of Mr. Chitton, New Burlington-street, London. " LORD DUNDREARY" AND " BROTHER SAM" IN THE LAZE DISTEICT.—Under this heading we recently inserted a paragraph which has, we regret to hear,' caused some annoyance to Mr Clifford (the manager of the Kes. wick Theatre), a gentleman who holds a respectable position in his profession, and who is deservedly enteemed in the Lake district. Our correspondent who furnished us with t hi s information in good faith was unwittingly made parti cipator in a foolish hoax. It is much t o b e regretted that the prejudices en tertained against transportation to Western Ana tralia should still remain in full force in many quar ters, for until more general views are held on the matter it seems very difficult to decide what is to be done with our convicts. Still, while persons sup posed to be acquainted with the de. ails, and ap pwarently interested in th e b ear i ngs o the question, ill persist in making so many objections to the schame, it is an awkward thirig for the Home co- Belfast allowed their animosity to O'CoNNELL's vernment to deal with them so as to do justice to memory to lead them so far in their carrying out the whole of the parties concerned. It is of ims of a counter-demonstration, th a t—in lighting the manse importance to the convicts themselves that bonfire th at roasted the effigy of the Liberator, they should be sent to that State, for there they can they may be s aid to have kindled their own begin a new life, as it were, when they have worked passions beyond control, thereby igniting a out their sentences, It adds greatly to the vexation conflagration more lamentable and more dis- of the affair that the objections which are so plea estrous of its kind than that which has just tifully put in against this proposal are not of a reduced two hundred houses to ashes at Limoges. tenable nature, bat almost always the result of pre- Whosoever it was among the Orangemen of Belfast judice and the consequence of looking at the ques who first set or. foot that ridiculous counter demon- tion in a one-sided manner. However, it is well stration—which distinctly gave thesignal for all this known that imaginary fears are often more difficult the windows of pri- to overc ome th an we ll- grounded apprehens i ons, and rioting in Belfast by smashing vette dveetlinghouses, mol atiog foot-passengers, and therefore it will not lessen the regrets of those who wrecking a nunnery —whosoever among the Bedeast rend and hear of the many obstacles interposed to O r angemen led the way in those first day's know that eseperience would prove the fellacy of the proceedings —is the firebrand that kindled inimical as guments. The Royal commission which those evil passions on both sides, which have since rece.n'.ly investigated the subject of penal servitude been raging so disastrously, there in Belfast, for were greatly in favour of this plan of sending con nearly one whole fortnight—passions that threaten vie is to Western Australia, but their recommehda to spread riot and bloodshed from Belfast to Don- t ,ons have shared the same fate that usually attends dalk, and from Dundalk far and wide through those such advice, and it is greatly to be deplored that north-eastern parts of Ireland. such should be the case. Ia a letter which has been addessed to the Ylines by the late Chief Justice of South Australia this subject is taken up again: the various points are discussed with great moderation, but still the writer is dead against the proposal. It is rather curious to notice some of the points which h 3 argues upon, for they seem to contradict them selves in a great measure. In the first place, he admits that many of the places that now object to the introduction of convicts among them . were originally penal settlements, and that the convict labour and the capital of the Government expendi ture were the beginning of the great wealth which they now enjoy. It would seem rather strange, then, that Western Australia should be deprived of all these advantages because the old colonists have discovered that they do not like to have convicts sent out. It cannot be true that the same evils attend their dispersion in those distant colonies that are inseparable from their being sent forth here to mingle in our crowded cities with their old associates, and resume their bad ways. It is impossible to have the same checks interposed upon them here as naturally arise out there, and the judgment which condemns the trans mission of convicts is an erroneous one in itself, and productive of great and serious evils to many. Why should it be so much worse for the colonists to have hundreds of these men whose sentences have ex pired among them than for us at home to have them constantly about us. It is a cruel determination on the part of the protesting colonists, and one that is not likely to du them any credit in the long run, when the full consequences it involves are taken into consideration. All that tends to lessen the spead of evil, and decrease the chances of re-convic tion by old offenders, should be gladly hailed as a boon by all wellwishers of their kind, and it is dis heartening to witness the predominance of such selfishness, and tho exhibition of so tench prejudice among those who have gained their advantages in many instances from the very plan which they now so bitterly inveigh against. It is EOLLIQ satisfaction to know that in this country the system of penal servitude will be carried on very dill rently from what it has been, so that if we aro forced to keep these unfortunate outcasts among us there will not be the same risk that there has hitherto been in the arrangements. Tne circular letter addressed by Sir GEORGE GREY to the judges is a proof of the improvements that have already bean effected, and doubtless, as time goes on, additions will be made to the reforms already instituted in this respect. Some of the most striking of the changes and altera tions that have been made exemplify the full im portance of the subject, and there is great reason to rejoice that so much should have been done to deter the devotees of crime from the prosecution o their iniquitous purposes. The short sentences that have done so much harm are now done away with, and five years is th; least term that can be assigned for the duration of imprisonment. This regulation is a very desirable one, since it must increase the terrors of the law that have of late years been too much divested of their deterring attributes. The more stringent measures to be henceforth adopted in respect to tickets-of-leave are also highly to be applauded, and strict attention to the rules enjoined will most likely be attended with a desirable issue, as here stated the consequence of these arrangements will be that " nothing is left to accident or caprice, but the punishment inflicted is precisely that which was intended." The mode of granting "remissions" will be changed in a great degree, and it will not in future be so easy for a convict to became possessed of this advantage as it has hitherto been ; steady and laborious industry as well as general good con duct will now be requisite towards the obtaining of the desired end. 'lbis will interpose a salutary check to the course of deceit practised by those supposed to be the most hopeful, and put them to a test which they cannot easily evade. It is especially desirable that a decided clause should have been passed in respect to life sentences, so that when Dace a convict has received this extreme sentence it should be adhered to, and nothing except " the mercy of the CROWN, on special grounds, " shou ld be allowed to alter its course, or put a period to its duration. Altogether it must be considered that the changes mentioned are most suitable and satio• factory ones, and the benefit that will accrue to society from the introduction of these salutary changes in our system of prison discipline and course of penal servitude are most likely to be great. It was certainly time that something was done to improve the existing state of things, and it is we that such decided steps have baen taken. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. [REITTER'S TELEGRAMS.] AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF WASHINGTON CAPE CLEAR, AUG. 19, The Inman steamship, City of Washington, from New York on the 6:h inat., arrived here this morn ing. Her advices have been fully anticipated by the Belgian, which brought despatches to the 6th evening. NEW YORK AUG. 6, 11 A.M. The re-invasion of Maryland is fully confirmed. The Confederates crossed the Potomac yesterday morning, in three columns of six to eight thousand each, at Hancock, Sheparcistown, and Williamsport, at 10 a.m. They occupied Hagerstown. They are reported to have reached Middleburg, 11 miles north of Hagerstown, this morning. Despatches from Harrisburg assert that the three columns have united, and are marching upon Cumberland and PittEburg, The situation at Petersburg is reported unchanged Nothing later from Atlanta. Non.efLial advices from New Orleans state that Admiral Farragut, with a large fleet of gunboats and ironclads, attacked the defences of Mobile on the 27th ult., and succeeded in passing Forts Gains and Morgan, commanding the entrance to the har bour. The contest was still in progress on the 30th alt. The result is unknown. Governor Seymour has remonstrated with the authorities at *Washington upon the excessive quotas assigned to the cities of New York and Brooklyn under the President's late call for troops. Gold 16li. The City of Washington takes uut 73,561 dole. in specie. SPAIN. MADRID, AUG. 18. It is asserted that the Minister of Finance intends to propose a modification of the Customs tariff with France, which is to be framed in a more liberal sense. ARRIVAL OF THE RIPON. SOU fIIAMPTON, AUG. 9. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Ripon, with the heavy portion of the Calcutta, China, and Australian mails, arrived hero to-day. She brings 144 passengers, £942 in specie, 858 packages of cargo, including raw silk, value £60,000; musk, 1,600 rupe es; precious stones, 1,000 rupees; gold embroidered velvet carpets for Sir Charles Wood, value 25,u00 rupees; and jewellery, value 500 rupees. GIBRALTAR, Aug. 14. Her Majesty's ships Procris and Redpole, the French transport Jura, and an Egyptian guebeat were in the harbour. Ezchange on London, 90 days, 501 ; on Paris, 5 , 21 ; on Genoa, 5 31 ; Madrid, eight days' sight, par. CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. SUEZ, AUG, 19. The Bengal, with the above mails, reached Suez at midnight yesterday. The Nubia arrived at Point de Gallo on the 2d i❑st., all well. BANK OF FRANCE. (REIMER . S EXPRESS.) PARIS, August 18. The following is the return of the Bank of France for the week, together with the corresponding figures of the previous account : AUGUST 18. AUGUST 11. DR. f. c. f. c. Capital of the Bank 182,500,000 182,500,000 Profits in add it ion toCapital (Art. 8 law June 9„1357) 5,126,1 714 5,114,862 48 Reserve iu the Bank and its branches Reserve in 'antic(' property 4,000,000 --4,000,003 Notes in circulation 769,096,425 777,023,925 Bank notes to order and re- ceipti payable at sight 5 ,293,677 16 6,233,349 15 Treasury acJ. cur. cralitor, 6 1,400,089 79 57,968,339 40 Current accounts—Paris 111,077,386 20 122,251.9;9 44 Do. branch-banks 28,669,631 26,611,833 Dividends payable Discounts and sundry , , interests 7,818,610 17 7,124,840 9 Re-discounts of the last spa mouths, 2,588,735 17 2,588,735 17 Sundries 1 , 216 ,891,401 77 1,231,833,445 85 Cu. Cash in hand and branch banks 276,200,182 91 272,433,487 38 Commercial bills ov , rdue 1,075,097 95 3,216,848 11 Com in ercidl bills discounted not yet due 3 2 1 ,793,934 02 330,403,019 35 Do. branch-bank5....305,316,363 303,092,556 Advances on deposits of bullion Do. branch banks... • 3,831,700 3,957,700 Advances on French public securities .. Do. branch-banks... • 9 ,151,156 Ad vancee on rail way shares and debentures .. 2 7,692,600 Do branch-banks.... 18 ,669,6;0 Advances on Credit Fon cier Bonds 4OOOOO Do. branch-banks .... 360,800 Advances to the State (ConvEn. June 10, 1857) 60,000,000 60.000,000 Govt. Stock Reserve .... 12 ,580,750 14 12,980,750 14 Do. disposable Rentes immobilisees (Law June 9, 1857) ' 0 0,000,000 Hotel and furniture of the Bank Lauded property, branches Expenses of management 713,400 44 71 2 , 921 54 Sundries,,, 100,000,000 - 8,353,452 - 1 , 21 6,891,401 77 1,231,833,4 45 85 Certified by the Honorary Viee•Prekident of the Council of State, Governor of the Bank, AD. VrlTltt. I THE BUTT OF PUNCH AND FUN ?—The reader will not have forgotten the curious ceincidenc: - : which we pointed out some weeks ago, of each of the two leading comic publications (lunch and Tun) having an illustration of the same kind, not connected with any matter of public importance, but with something of an en ' tirely private character. A person of decidedly Hebraic origin, adorned with whiskers of gigantic proportions, was represented entering the studio of an artist, and request ' jog (or rather demanding) of him to purchase a work of his in considerati on o f prospective puffs i n t h e newspapers. Some peopl e may think that such a notion was utterly chimerical and to o f ar removed from t h e reg i on o f the possible to b e ser i ously considered, b ut to all such a nd also to th ose who are sceptical as to the fidelity with which th e comic caricaturists a dh ere to the truth of n a t ure, we commend the report of a case which was tried in the Marylebone County Court a few days a go, before Sir J. E. Wilmot, the judge; which case is re ported in The Borough of .Ifarylebone Mercury of last week. The plaintiff in this case was a certain Mr Ben Charles Jones, who described himself as an author, living at No. 9, Arundel-gardens, Kensington-park, and the defendant was Mr C. Silvy, the well-known photographer, residing at 38, Prechtstemerrace. Mr Jones was endeavouring to re cover the sum of £1 14s for books stated to have been ,ordered by and delivered to the plaintiff. The statement on behalf of the defendant was, that Mr Jones had been intro duced to him in February last, and had proposed to him to subscribe for "a hundred lectures." The defendant re fused to sign any contract, but said he would pay for the volumes us he had them. Three volumes had been sent, and the author had called to state that he was "an author of whichg r e a latter att reputeer capacity ad an he influential could d o member for the defendant e the nda n press, i s n e amount of good by mentioning his name favourably in the different London newspapers." Toe defendant further more stated, that on being called upon to pay the money "he declined to have anything whatever to do with him ; and on plaintiff pressing him, he peremptorily told him that he would have nothing to do with either him or his books." Some days afterwards, however, a parcel was lets with the books, and eventually the plaintiff called for pay went, but he soon ordered him off and his books too. Nu evidence was given as to "the vast amount of good" which the plaintiff was capable of doing, and after going into the case with some minuteness, the judge announced his inten tion of postponing it for fresh evidence, when the plaintff elected to be non -suited. A case like this, unless properly explained, is not likely to raise the reputation of the press in the estimation of the world at large,— Thehady's .N*B - MR. ALFRED MELLON'S CONCERTS. Another week of these, delightful and thoroughly popular musical entertaiments is drawing to a close, with, on the part of the public itself, a growing evidence of their appreciation. The nightly attend dance in the Royal Italian Opera House at Covent Garden, affords evidence of this, of the most conclu sive character. Nor is it matter for surprise that it should be so—particularly now when the vast majority of the places of public entertainment (among these nearly the whole of the Londan theatres) aro closed inhos pitably against all sight-seeing Londoners. I'tanka to Mr Mellon, however—now that the Opera [ - louses are both of them closed, here at Covent Gard( n, there at Her M9jesty's, when Drury Lane is shut, and the Haymarket, and the St. James's, and the Westminster, and &idler's Wells, and the Lyceum—when even individual entertainers, like Mr Woedin, have packed up their proper ties for a tour in the provinces—thanks, se Bay, during this no-season among the generality of managers, conductors, and entertainers, the - , , Es to Mr. Alfred Mellon's enterprize in ce matter of these Conc er t s , we can enjoy `2.4, nay every, night if we please, a feast of s7;eet sounds—music by the most gifted maste,:, executed by the most accom plished perfe;aners. Medlle. Marie Krebs on the piano, Carrodus on the violin, Mr Levy on the corset-4-piston, Ali Ben Sou-Alle on the Turko phone, Madlle. Culotta Patti on that marvellous, magical organ of her own—her voice ! Last even ing (another of Mr. Mellon's Thursdays!) was the night set apart, this week, for the works of Mendelssohn—as the previous Thursday had been sot apart for those of Mozert and as next Thursday (an exce:nionally grand attraction even among these Thursdays) is to be set apart for the wo=ks of Baethoven. Meeting of Crowned Heads at Kissingen. Galignani publishes an interesting letter from Kissingen, giving a comparative sketch of its merits over those of other watering places, and containing an amusing account of the doings of Royal and Im perial personages there : There are but few French here, and scarcely any English. In the social aspect's of Kissingen there is a commendable absence of the follies of fashionable life. There is no Casino, no Kureaal, as at Wiesbaden, Ems, and Baden Baden, and, consequently, the canons of good taste are not cifended by the pre:esstious toilettes and vicious excesses which have ren d sered those places so notorious. In ifs secluded position, its rural environs, and the every day life of the visitors, Kissingen beats a strong resemblance to Schwalbach. Yet t he appearance of the guests and the character of the waters its the two places are the very antipodes of each other. At Kissingen, the majority of the visitors are more or less over grown, more or less florid-looking, and the males out-num ber the females 10 to 1. The waters, with a plain dietary regimen and plenty of exercise,are very efficacious in check ing any tendency to corpulency, and are useful in the cure or dyspepsia and all derangements of the stomach. At Schwalbach the visitors are generally thin, pale-looking, and the females outnumber vastly , the males. As the iron waters enrich the blood, and the olject in taking them is to add flesh and not reduce it, the exercise prescribed to those taking the cure at Schwalbach is very light, while the diet is rich and abundant. At the latte , place the ladies remain sitting all day long on rural benches under the trees, listening to the music; whilst at Kissingen every path and corner is invaded from six to eight in the morning and four to six in the afternoon by endless crowds of mostly male promenaders, walking with intense energy, and looking as if engaged in the performance of some solemn religious duty. A flue band of music performs during the hours of promenade. The visit of the Imperial and Royal personages here produced no perceptible influence on the usual routine of life. The Imperial family of Russia set a notable example by the unostentatious style of their manners. The Empress walked out in the beautiful grounds every day, dressed in marked simplicity. Wherever she went, she was the observed of all observers. She is a graceful-looking woman, of slight physique, Saxon type of features, and ap parently about 45 years of ego. She took the cure regularly under the advice of the best resident physician, whom she consulted upon her arrival. She looked well, and was not seriously indisposed, but the cruel rigour of the Russian winters had tried her constitution severely, and it was believed by her medical advisers that a thorough change of air, with the use of proper medicinal waters, would do her great good. Of the Russian Imperial family who have been sojourning in Kiesingen, there wore, besides the Emperor and Empress, two of the younger Grand Dukes, the Grand Duchess Helen, and the Prince Imperial Ccsarowitch, just turned 20, of fine personal presence and very agre'able manners. He is at present, as you are aware, making a general tour through Europe. The Emperor was to be seen constantly during his stay walking about the public grounds, and not unfrequently in the society of the new King of Bavaria. His costume was a simple morning dress, with a plain grey hat, in strirring contrast with the military uniform which he invariably wears in public when in Russia. Iu most of his rambles he was accompanied by his favourite black setter dog, "Mylord," of English stock. The young King of Bavaria had an opportunity of making the personal acquaintance of the Emperor of Austria and of the Imperial family of Russia. Ho is not yet nineteen, but very manly in appearance, with a fine Raphaelite lace, and expressive large blue eyes. He has been brought up with his younger brother, under the guardianship of a Protestant mother, in a strict and domestic manner, and has seen comparatively little of life outside of his father's palace. Indeed, his education was not yet completed, as it had been definitely arranged that he should go to the Uni versity this winter, when all at once his father's demise de volved on him the duties of Royalty. His portrait, which previously was scarcely known to the people, is at pre sent in every window. For two or three days prior to quitting Kissingen, he was confined to his apartment by the ef&cis of fatigue, and his re-appearance on the morning of his departure, was a signal for quite an outburst of popular enthusiasm, Imprisonment of Four Italians in Bokhara The Ilurkaru gives some details relating to the imprisonment of the lealien adventurers, now sup posed to be lingering in the custody of the barba rous Khan of Bokhara, or, as is more probable, condemned to the fate of our own unfortunate Stoddart and (3:Rielly in the same inhospitable region :—" The party consisted of four Italians and an attendant, who acted as an interpreter and gave hiavelf out as a Russian. They arrived at Bokhara in October last and took up their quarters in a cara vanserai in the town. Here they were visited by the Wuzeer, to whom they explained the object of their mission. He closely examined their effects, which comprised some merchandise, in the shape of spring toys, jacks-in-boxes, a handaorgan, and other euriosiqes, and after exacting a heavy duty he left them, intimating that they would be allowed to purchase small quantities of silk in the bezoar until the King's pleasure was known. The Atneer was at this time absent on an expedition to Bohan, and on being apprised of the presence of these foreigners at his capital, he ordered that they should be placed in the principal fort, the B ola Hisser, but should nit be treated as prisoners. On his return, the Ameer granted them an audience, and inspected their curio sities. Their papers cubs( quently underwent a closer .crutiny, and, unfortunately for the Italians, some sketches of the country traversed by them, and a plan of the bazaar o Bukhara itself, were dis covered, which roused the Ameer's worst suspi cions of their inimical character, and led to their immediate removal to the notorious subterranean prison known as 'the Al Khunna,' or Dark Well. After a week's incarceration in this chamber of horrors, the Ameer, it is alleged, relented, and ordered the strangers back to the Bala Hisser, or principal fort. This occurred i❑ November last, and later intelligence received would seem to show that they continued to be detained at this fort pending a reference made to the Court of St. Petersburg by the Ameer. Oa their removal to the prison of the Darin Weil, orders were given for the confl,:cation and public sale of their property, and a few articles belonging to the captives have thus found their way to the hands of the Punjab authorities. We have in this circumstance a repeti• thou of what happened to a portion of the property of the lamented Stoddart, one of whose sextants and •several hooks were brought to St. Petersburg during nis captivity at Bokhara. Meanwhile the Chevalier Bonhomme, as an envoy from the King of Italy, wil , have reached Teheran, and will lose no time in for warding letters which he bears from the Sultan ot Turkey, as head of the faithful, to the Ameer ot Bokhara in behalf of the Italian captives. But it is to be feared that, like that of the spiritual head of Rome, the influence of the Ottoman Sultan in tem• poral matters is very faint in the ultramoatane re pions of Bokhara. The general impression is that the influence of Russia alone can save the men, and it is confidently expected, th4t it will be vigorously employed." Frederick Douglass on the American War, The following is an extract from a recent letter from Mr. Douglass to an English correspondent who had helped to send out a box of clothing for the distressed fugitives in Washington, D.C., and who wished to assist the society conducted by coloured people, Mr. Douglass's rebuke of Mr. Lincoln's Government comes with peculiar force from one of the sufferers : My knowledge of the character and effichirey of the Freedman's Reli e f Society at Washi ng t on was obtained last summer by attending its annual meeting at the Fifteenth -street Presbyterian Church in that city. TPere were present about fifty ledies and gentlemen. But these were to ail outward seeming well entitled to the name I give them. I never was in a more orderly or businese-fia e sseejey. The Eight o f th ese kind, good people tedeevoutitig to do something towards miti - gating the sufferings cf their race, and to essist in their improvement, would have been gre...kving to you. I shall send Hour letter f. O Mi.; E. V. Brown, H the correspond g 'secretary of the Washington Freedman's Association. She is better able than I to give you direct information as to what the society has done, is doing, and proposes to do. When the question of organising these Freedman's Associa tions was first raised I opposed eueh organisations, chiefly on the ground that they would tend to keep alive the hurtful idea that the negro cannot take care of himself. And even now I insist that these societies ought not to be necessary, and would not if the Government and people of the country would only be just in their dealings with them. These newly-freed people are victimised on every hand. Their strong men have been literally swept Late the army, and the weak ones left to endure untold suffering. Heretofore our Government has hardly paid them money enough to buy the shoes they march in. Had we justice we should not need generosity. You have said some sharp things in the Inquirer of the conduct of the Weshington Government, but none too sharp. the more you can say of the swindle by which our Government claims the I respect of mankind for abolishing elavery—at the same time that it is practically re-establishing that hateful system in Louisiana, tender General Banks—the better. I have not readily consented to the claims set up in the name of anti-slavery for our Government, but I have tried to believe all for the best. My patience and faith are not very strong now. The treatment of our black soldiers —the refusal to pay them any like equal con pels. sation, though it was promised them when they enlisted; the refusal to insist upon the ex change of coloured prisoners, and to retaliate upon rebel prisoners when coloured prisoners have been slaughtered in cold blood, although the Presis dent has repeatedly promised thus to protect the lives of his coloured soldiers—have worn my patience quite threadbare. The President has virtually laid down this as the rule of his statesmen : Do evil by choice, right from neceseity. You will see that he does not sign the bill adopted by Congress restricting the organisation of State Governments only to those States where there is a loyal majority. His plan is to organise such Govern inents whenever there is one-tenth of the people loyal !—an entire centra diction of the constitutional idea of Republican Government. I see no purpose on the part of Lin coln and his friends to extend the elective franchise to the coloured people of the South, but the con trary. This is extremely dishonourable. No rebuke of it can be too stinging from your side of the water. The negro is deemed good enough to fight for the Government, but not good to vote or enjoy the right to vote in the Government. We invest with the elective franchise those who with bloody blades and bloody hands have sought the life ef the nation, but sternly refuse to invest those who have done what they could to save the nation's life. This discrimination becomes more dishonourable when the ciretunstances are duly considered. Our Govern went asks the negro to espouse its cause; csks him to turn against his master, and thus fire his master's hate against him. Well, when it has attained peace, what does it propose P Why this, to hand the negro back to the political power of his master, without a single elEment of strength ti, shield himself from the vindictive spirit sure to be roused against the whole coloured race. You can easily imagine that my life during all this war has been an anxious one. Constituted as I am, and identified as I am with the hated class whose fortunes tremble constant.y in the balance, there is no rest for my spirit amid this terrible strife, My son Lewis has been honourably dis charged from the 54th Massachusetts Regiment. but he is still with the regiment in South Carolina, acting as sutler's clerk. My son Charles has been in several of the recent battles rcucd Petersburg, Virginia. A week ego he was still unharmed, We take up the paper each morning with a hesitating hand, for we know not what it may bring. Oar country—l mean the North as well as the South— seems rapidly tending to ruin. Our financial con dition is rapidly r , aging itself to the level predicted for it by some of your statesmen as well as ours. Our people don't want to b taxed to sustain the public credit, end impose upon our financiers the Egyptian task of making bricks without straw. Chase's re signation, I fear, will prove a heavy blow to our credit abroad. Of all members of the Cabinet Mr. Chase s perhaps the most anti-slavery. lam ex. pecting to visit the freed men's camp about Wash ;ngton and Atexandtia soon, and mAy hereafter give you some account of their condition and prospects. My friends about Washington think it does some good to have me go down and talk to thew. I irm sure it does me good. 16,106,409 - 9,412,8.0 - 27,792,900 - 18,70,1,050 - 395,000 - 356,900 - WILLS AND BEQUESTS, The will of Sir Christopher W. Bethel Codrington, Bart , M.P., of Dodington Park, Gloucestershire, was adminis tered to on the 9 h inst. It bears date 1851, and a codicil is added, dated June 22, 1864, Sir Christopher has be queathed to his relict, Lady Georgiana Charlotte Aune, daughter of the seventh Duke of Beaufort, the whole of his property, her ladyship being the universal legatee un der the will. His son and heir is a minor in hia fourteenth year. Tho will of Sir Francis Edward Scott, Bart., of Great Barr Hall, Staffordshire, was proved in London, on the 30th ult., by the executors, the Hon. Chichester Fortescue, M.P., and Wm. G. Mount, Esq. The personalty was sworn un der £60,000. The will bears date Nov. 18, 1863, and was attested by Sir Wm. E. C. Hartropp, Bart., and the Rev. Payton Blakiston, Clerk and M.D., of St. Lconards. The testator died three days after, at St. Lconards on-the-Sea, at the age of 39. Sir Francis married, in 1854, Mildred Anne, daughter of Sir Wm. Hartropp, Bart. It is a sin gular circumstance that two distinct baronetcies—viz., those of Bateman and Scott, both created in 1866, met in the person of the late Baronet, who succeeded to the Bateman baronetcy in 1824, and to that of Scott in 1851. Sir Francis was the eldest son of the late Sir E. D. Scott, Bart., by Catherine Juliana, eldest daughter and co heiress of the late Sir Hugh Bateman, Bart. Sir Francis has bequeathed to his relict an annuity of £ 100 beyond her annuity under settlement. To his eldest son (a minor) he has devised his reel estate and the residue of the personalty. To his younger son and three daughters he leaves legacies of £5,000 each. Sir Franciii has bequeathed his collection of Limoges enamels to the Midland Institute, in Birmingham, together with the sum of £5O to purchase au oak or walnut case to contain them. The will of Martin Thackeray, Esq., of Gloucester-place, Portman-square, was proved in the London Court, on the 22d ult., by the execu - ors, Augusta Thackeray, the relict, and Charles De La Pryme, Esq., the nephew, The per sonalty was sworn under £35,000. Tho testator was for many years Vice- F - rovost of King's College, University oi Cambridge. Upon the decease of his widow he bequeaths to that college all his books, prints, and engravings, in testimony of his grateful remembrance of the obligations received by him from the bounty of King Henry VI., anci his anxious desire to promote the s t u d y of sound and useful learning amongst the scholars of the college founded by his Majesty. lie also bequeaths the sum of £l,OOO, the divi dends to be given to the scholar of King's College educates: in the foundation at Eton who shall, on the examination each year for Bachelor of Arts, have taken the highes , degree amongst the Wranglers in the mathematical tripos• The testator bequeaths to his relict a life interest in his estates real and personal, appointing her ladyship also resi duary legatee; and, upon her decease, devises his freehold estate to his nephew, Joseph Thackeray, leaving lib eral. legacies to his nep h ews, nieces, and others. To the B e d ford Hospital he bequeaths £5OO. This bequest, and the legacies to the college, are to he paid free of duty. MEETING OP MI DDLESEX M A GISTRATES.---A meeting of the magistrates of the county of Middle sex was held yesterday at the Sessions-house, Clerkenwell, for the transaction of the usual county business ; Mr Henry Pownall was is the chair. The proceedings, however, .were of usual routin , s character, and each ae noL to call for a report. f i rlanbir 4.Treli 44, ,C _z•-„,k,,,, ....„.• HER MAJESTY, OSBORNE, August 18. lior Majesty the Queen gave an entertainment ye,?teiday afternoon to the boys and girls of the Whippingbam schools in the new school house. _ . TtieQ;ieen, accompanied by Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, Princess Helena, Princess Lou'Eet Prince I/N?pold, and Princess 13 , titr:u t arrived aC the school• hous at half-past 5 o'clock, and was 1.0- ived by the G Prothero, rector of WhiPPir)g ham. Ptincvss Victoria of Hesse was also preti,cnt• The children immediately sat down to ton, after which they proceeded to a neighbouring field, where games and races took place, the commencemsnt. of which was witnessed by the Queen and royal family. Vi :count and Viscountess Gort, and several la dies and gentlemen, with their families, residing in neighbourhood attended. Her Majesty and the royal family were attended by Llely Portman, the Hon. Mrs. Bruce, the Hon- Florence Seymour, Baroness de Grancy, Lieut.. Seneral the Hon. C. Grey, Lieut.-Colonel Du Plat , Captain von Westerweller, and Colonel Sir T. M. Biddulpb. Her Majesty has received good accounts of his Royal Highness Prince Alfred, from Norway, where he proceeded as far as the North; and from his Royal Highness Prince Arthur, who is maki o g tour in S wilzerland, attended by Colonel F. Ser mow and Major Elphinstone. Prince Arthur has lat e ly b een staying at Ch A fi : mcunix, from whence h e a scen d e d on foot towards Mont Blanc, as far as the Grands Mulets. The Prince and Princess of Wales in Scotland. The Prince of Wales has been enjoying the Epor t of grouse sho o ti ng on th e Ab ergei di e moors ei ne° the opening d a y, an d w i t h f a i r success . Oa S'atut dl,y the Countess of Fif e d rove to Abergeldie on a visit to their royal highnesses. On SandaY the Prince and P r inc ess o f W ales , an d his Royal Sigh ness the Duke of Cambridge and tae Princess Marl and suite attended the pari s h c hurch of Cra thie• The Rev. W. Ander s on, a ss i s tant clera men ' preached an excellent sermon f rom the words--" it not a little one 1' nix. 20. The church ws well filled. It is sated that their royal highnesses will be CS' carted to Denmark by the Channel fleet, a nd that the vessels will rena t zvous at Leith by the let o f September. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Cambridge and Princess Mary of Cambridge, attended by " I " Curzon, arrived at Aberdeen on Saturday, on the way to Deeside. After inspecting the statue of the Prince Consort in Unicn-r,treet, their royal high nesses left for Aboync, whence they proceeded by posting to Ahe rge ldi e , on a v i s i t t o the Princ e and Princess of Wal e s. hi s roya l hi g hness pu rposes h inour the E ar l o f D a lh ous i e b y a visit at Brec hin Cistle this week for a f ew d a y s ' grouse shooting ! and the nobl e ear l h as i nv i te d a select party et to gentlemen to meet his royal visitor. The Duke and Duchess of Richmond arrived at Gordon Castle, N. 8., last week, and are now per" tertaining a select circle of friends. On the first two days of grouse shooting on the Blaekwater and Glen Fiddich moors the Duke, Lord Bingham, Col. Coke, and Mr. Coke killed above 140 brace of birds. His Escelleney the Bavarian Minister and the Baroness de Cetto left the Bavarian Legation, in Hill-street,Berkeley-square,yesterday, for Brightos. The Marquis and Marchioness of Landsdowne have arrived on a visit to the Right Hon. J. Fitz patrick at Granstown, on their way to Kenmare. The Marchioness (Frances Anne) of Londonderry has arrived at Garcon Tower, her seat in Ireland from Seham The Earl and Countess of Besaborough arrived at Bessborough House, Kilkenny, on Monday last. .The Earl end Countess of Wilton, Viscount and , iecountees Grey de Wilton, end Mr. and Lady A.ice des Vans: are at present staying at Wer mon th. The party intend to remain until after the regatta next week. The E rrl Beauchamp has gone to Hastings. The noble earl has greatly improved in health. The Earl of 'Stafford has arrived in Paris from England. The Earl de Grey arrived in town yesterday evening from a tour of inspection of the fortification s at present in progress on the coasts of Ireland and England. The countess has also arrived in town. The Earl of Dalhousie is at Invermark, where he is receiving a small party of visitors. Die first two days of shooting afforded excellent sport) cearly 100 birds having fallen to each gun. The Earl of Aberdeen has recently been on a visit to the Earl of Dalhousie at Brechin Castle, Forfarshire. Viscount and Viscountess Castlerosse have ar rived at Kilkenny House, Killarney, after paying a viat to their Irish seat on toe way. The Countess cf Erroll gave birth to a eon at Siains Castle, Aberdeenshire, on the 14th inst. Viscount Holmesdsle, who has the whole of the Invercautd shootings on the north side of the Dee, except a small portion in the vicinity of Invercauld House, has arrived at Corndavon Lodgv, for the season. t Lora Edward Cavendish and the Hon. S p encer Lytielton have been among the visitors to Sir Augusta.% Clifford, at Westfield House, Hyde. DEATH OF DR, R. DUNDAS THOMSON, F.R•S' -- , We have to record the death of Dr. Robert Doudas • Thomsen, a gentleman of considerable mark in the scientific I world. Ho died on Wednesday last at Dunstable, where • he was on a visit to his brother. Dr. Thompson was berm in 180.5, and was educated at Glasgow, in which university' he eventually took his degree of doctor of medicine. Alor practieing some time in London he became connected with many of the metropolitan medical societies, and was Sr pointed lecturer on chemistry at St. Thomas's Hospital, having held a similar position in the University of Gls!%ow- He was one of the founders of the Blenheim Free Diepen sary, an institution which conferred incalculable bentfita on the poor, and long acted gratuitously as one of its phy sicians, He also became physician of the Scottish Hos pital, on behalf of which his services were always meet heartily rendered. He was a fellow of the Royal Society, as well as of the London and - Edinburgh, the Royal Medi cal, and the Chirurgical and Chemical Societies. By his death the presidency of the British Meteorological Societ9s and the post of medical officer of health for the large metro• politan parish of lilarylebone becomes vacant. Dr. 1: 1301] , - eon, in addition to his medical labours, found time to wri t° ' and edit several scientific works. Amongst them are ''.,; cords of General Science," 4 vole ; " B r itish .An a ';',' vols.; `'Uyelo i..calia of Chemist r y, Mi nera l o gy. 80m ; n edi cal and scientific journ a ls. D r. Th omson wa s Phy siology," besides many cont r ib ut i ons to t h e va rion' a ,d n ai aed a member of the Royal C o ll ege o f Ph ys i c i ans in LB 59. THE GROUSE SHOOTING.—F e om all parts 01 the Yorkshire moor s accounts are rece iv e d of the ex treme plenty of bird s , it b e i ng sa id th a t f o r several years the y have never been so nu merous . Th e success of t he s p ortsmen ,is various. On th e m o ors skirting th.: Cle veland district be, bags are the rule, owing to the strength and wildness e f the game, but from the extreme north, on Mr Morritt' s moor, near Ilokeby, the reve rse is the case. The party c Mr :tlorritt, M.P., wood, the Hon. E. Dur,combe, M.P., Mr Vyner, Cclor.e l cons isting of that gen tl eman, Lord Her '- Frazer (11th Hussars), and Sir G, Wombwell, in g one day nave bagged 169 brace amerce them, and on the next 128 brace. Here the birds were never known so plentit ul. RODSoN's GENIUS GROTEEQUE NOT BURL EiECITIB• —Frederick Robson is dead, too, the grotesque littlo actor who, ten years coo, set the wits of London to work 10 discover in what lay the secret of his marvellous power- Originally sprung from the booths of our country lairs, Ai r Robson made his debut in London at the Eagle Tavern, now Nit . Conquest's Grecian. Here he attracted a great deal Of n otice, but it was not before his appearance at the 01( aPi e Theatre, in the late Frank Talfouree exceeding/9 o l l' var burlesque of " Macbeth," that the full measure of his ge n ius became appreciated. Since that time, up to his enforced retirement from the stage, the career of Robson was an un interrupted success. His school of acting was less comic 'haft grotesque, and the thoughtful critic was apt to restrain. the smile upon his lips in favour of a more serious expres, .4on when he, saw the quaint, weird little figure, and the diarvellously expressive lace illustrate feelings and passions which co one could fail to recognise as really human, but which had a tendency to excite not so much laughter as end feeling of chill terror at the weakness of poor buinaniel,a,t. the slender boundary which divides insan it y from sraisq_ Robson was no more a burlesque actor than Cellos caricaturist : he belonged to the groteeque ech4°l._ :if Qt(011 tittis day. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVEINING, AUGUST 19, 18G4.